Character Quote by Robert Stone

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make…

— Elizabeth Bowen

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

— George Lucas

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I…

— Martin Landau

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in…

— Donna Mills

Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.

— Tom Rickman

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

— Quentin Tarantino

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest